Example sentences of "with a [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tank filled with a thousand locusts and five scorpions is intriguing visitors to a museum . |
| 2 | The treaty , with a 10-year durations and which required ratification by both parliaments , followed that confirming the Oder-Neisse border between the two countries signed in November 1990 [ see p. 37867 ] . |
| 3 | During his period in England from 1831 to 1832 , in what was to be the first of several such sojourns , Louis-Napoleon met his uncle Joseph — only to be received with a glacial politeness and a lecture on his Italian escapade . |
| 4 | Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on . |
| 5 | I mean I , my sister used to have one and she said you could take it on the motorway and it 'll just keep up a , a very good speed still with a noisy engines and then it just kept going and going and going . |
| 6 | It was because the people were used to that kind of society with a secret police and er government inspectors and sending people out to Siberia and putting |
| 7 | Holly had listened with a chilled politeness and shrugged and turned away on his side for sleep . |
| 8 | Incremental programming will be involved , starting with a few rules and , as more expertise is added , the ES gets bigger and performs better . |
| 9 | With a few whacks and some loud whistles , they drive the donkeys out of the enclosure . |
| 10 | Still , he prepared her cigarettes for her at least , filling a saucer with a few butts and plenty of ash . |
| 11 | So , even if you have to cope with a few tears and sulks , do n't let them get you down . |
| 12 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 13 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 14 | Now it is only a small island with a few houses and the great cathedral with its accompanying church , S. Fosca . |
| 15 | fix it firmly at the vase with a few stitches or a spot of glue and pull it round the ‘ neck ’ by winding a thread round it ( you 'll have a few small folds here ) . |
| 16 | In Latin America , Africa , and Asia , peasants might make a similar journey to market with a few chickens or other stock and produce if the fare were low enough to leave some profit . |
| 17 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
| 18 | I HAVE had sex with a few girls but I do n't think that they found this experience very satisfying . |
| 19 | Though separated from his Guard , Napoleon apparently remained in company with Soult , Bertrand and Drouot who , together with a few officers and an escort , were seen at Quatre Bras at 1 a.m. on 19 June . |
| 20 | To return to the offending nettle ( Urtica dioica ) or , it too had its uses : Martin Martin noted that in Skye ‘ the tops of nettles , chopped small , and mixed with a few whites or raw eggs , applied to the forehead and temples by way of a frontel , is used to procure sleep ’ . |
| 21 | It is possible to start off with the simplest possible system with a few reports and then add to it as new requirements are uncovered . |
| 22 | As soon as the removal van is spotted by a neighbourhood group member , the new family is welcomed into the area with a few pastries and an offer of practical help . |
| 23 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 24 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 25 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 26 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 27 | The marshal 's favoured plan — Susan gathered — was that she should B into Daine 's Dream , as herself but with a few improvements and then rip the sub-universe apart until she found the fugitive and could tase him awake . |
| 28 | She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ? |
| 29 | The number of flowers that can be used for the golden theme is quite large : you could choose something very simple , such as a small spray of yellow roses with a few of their own leaves and buds , or something more complicated , such as a mixture of yellow roses , mimosa , potentillas and narcissi , with a few primroses and primulas to give extra detail . |
| 30 | So why could Dr Neil , with a few words and a sidelong look , lance her indignation so easily , compel her to reassess herself and life ? |